dyna booster ?

I would buy the 4 Ohm EMGO coil and punt the old one if it is the original coil. That one gave me a bucket of grief.

I have one that I took off of one of my old 1000s when I went to electronic ignition. I can give it to you for a good price. If you are interested let me know and I will dig it up. You can send me a PM if you are interested.

I have been looking into an ignition for my 650 using that gm ignition writeup I found here. I think I understand it, but I dont understand what to use to replace the point pickups. What do we use for pickups?

cobura wrote: I have been looking into an ignition for my 650 using that gm ignition writeup I found here. I think I understand it, but I dont understand what to use to replace the point pickups. What do we use for pickups?

As known, points ignition system doesn't use an igniter (or diy substitute for igniter).
Signal wires from points are routed directly to coil primary terminals.

Oem Kawasaki electronic ignition uses pick-ups (1st pic below) with an I.C. Igniter (2nd pic below). Signal wires from pick-ups are routed through the igniter to coil primary terminals.





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Great, thanks patton! So then I should use the factory pickups from another kawasaki? Which one do u think is best for my kz650?

The pickups that look like the ones in that photo are all basically the same. The only difference is the timing plate. The 550, 650, and 750-four all use the same size timing plate.

You then also need the rotor.

I think the rotor will fit onto a points advancer, so I think you can use your original timing advancer.

Patton wrote:

I'm not sure that's an igniter. There are simply not enough wires for it to be an igniter for the early KZ electronic ignitions.

You need pos. and ground.
Plus 2 coil wires.
Plus 4 pickup wires.

It's not impossible to combine some wires and use the case as ground, but I've never seen Kaw do that.

I'm not sure what that thing is.

cobura wrote: ...So then I should use the factory pickups from another kawasaki? Which one do u think is best for my kz650?

Am thinking the mounting plate with pickups and rotor-pointer from most any later model KZ650, and retain the existing advancer, but would await more confident advice.





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Thanks again!

That is very helpful information.

loudhvx wrote:

Patton wrote:

I'm not sure that's an igniter. There are simply not enough wires for it to be an igniter for the early KZ electronic ignitions.

You need pos. and ground.
Plus 2 coil wires.
Plus 4 pickup wires.

It's not impossible to combine some wires and use the case as ground, but I've never seen Kaw do that.

I'm not sure what that thing is.

Thanks, Lou! I grabbed the wrong pic. :blush:

Will atone by offering this smorgasbord of I.C. Igniters. :lol:



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Ahhh. Smorgasbord. :woohoo: